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“Where should I meet you?”

“Here, I’ll just share my location with you on Latitude, just navigate to me”

“Ok.”

“See you in a bit.”

A little weird, and a little awesome.

It feels like the signal to noise ratio of the world has decreased significantly over the past several years. Not just in terms of communications volume, but also what it is that people have to contribute.

Navigating a world like this should prove to be exceedingly difficult unless we start figuring out what we need to do to keep our interaction with the world manageable.

Entire microcosms are coming into existence around wholly useless memes. Meme viruses manifest themselves as links that get sent around, singlehandedly destroying time and brain cycles. It’s not just about productivity any more either, it’s quality of life.

Increasingly, as we begin to publish more and more, how much do we expect people to “just know” and how much can we repeat ourselves? When you publish your calendar to friends, or make status updates via Twitter or Facebook – do you expect your friends / contacts to keep up with you?

When you have a lot to say, it can be annoying to repeat yourself.

Then again, sometimes when you have a lot to say, it might be most wise to remain silent.